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What are migrants? Many were placed on buses or planes and shipped to Chicago by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, after crossing the Mexican border.
(CHICAGO) -- The city is taking steps to open up to five new migrants shelters with a combined capacity of nearly 2,500 — including a former Marine Corps Reserve Center and the former Broadway Armory in Edgewater — to grapple with a continued surge of asylum-seekers. Mayor Brandon Johnson’s admi
Potential sites for new shelters were identified in a memo distributed to Chicago City Council members in advance of a meeting on Wednesday of the council’s Immigrant and Refugee Rights Committee.
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Sites including former Marine Corps and Armory locations were listed in a memo to City Council members before an Immigrant and Refugee Rights Committee meeting.
Chicago police denied hundreds of U visa certifications from undocumented crime victims. More than half of the city council called for accountability and new transparency rules, but the measures never passed.